Challenge Guidelines: December 2017

Please
remember to follow all the guidelines before submitting your entry! If
your project does not comply with the guidelines, then unfortunately it cannot be considered for any prize or winners position. All the information you need is detailed below.

Winners to be announced in a
blog post here: 9am GMT Friday29th December

All entries must feature the theme stated in bold above.

Any digital stamps used MUST be used alongside regular rubber/polymer stamping.

Projects can be of any theme, any colour.

Projects
can be a card, layout, journal page, art panel, tag, 3D item, anything
at all, as long as it follows all guidelines and features that months
technique or theme, and of course includes actual stamping.

The winning design entry MUST be
posted to the magazine for photography before it can be published. Please
keep hold of your entry, we cannot publish in the magazine images sent via
computer.

The winning project will be returned after photography is complete.

A complimentary copy of the magazine in which thewinning entry is published will be sent after publication.

Entry is via the linking
tool at the end of the post.

We are very sorry, we cannot accept email
entries or postal entries to this challenge.

Please provide deep links to your actual
project post, not just a link to your blog/Social media page (to do this, click
on the title
of the relevant blog entry/socail media post and copy/paste the URL in the relevant
box when uploading your entry). The DT will not go searching your entire blog/social media page for the project we want to
see!

No backlinking.

New work
only please, not work previously published anywhere else.

ORIGINAL
work only please. Projects CASED from another persons work, or based on
another persons design ARE NOT considered original work.

Entry is welcome from
anywhere in the world.

Please
only include the project entered for the challenge in your blog
post. Blog posts containing multiple, different projects will not be
considered for any prize. A set, series or group of projects fall into this category, so will not be considered. (multiple pictures/step by steps of the SAME
project are of course allowed) ONE ITEM (PROJECT) PER POST PLEASE!

You may enter more than once, up to a MAXIMUM of THREE entries. Each entry MUST have it's own blog post and fulfill all rules.

Entries can be combined
with other blog challenges.

An obvious, clickable link back to the Craft Stamper Blog/Instagram page must be included in your blog post.

The January2018 challenge will
be announced here on Friday January 5th at 9am GMT

WINNERS:

The Sponsors prize will be won by someone chosen at random by a number
generator from all entries. Your entry MUST fulfill all guidelines to be eligible to win.

The Design Winner will be chosen via a voting system. The
TIMI DT, the CS DT and CS Editorial team will vote for their top three
favourite designs from all eligible entries. The design with the most
votes will win the design prize, which consists of publication in Craft
Stamper Magazine, a GDT slot for an upcoming challenge, and a winners
profile.The winners profile is a stand alone blog post, showcasing the
style and work of the winner.

Once the names of the winners have been announced on the blog, it it up to the
winner to make contact with the DT coordinator to claim the prizes
offered. If the prize involves a deadline date (GDT slot, Winners Profile) it is up to
the winner to make the deadlines, if not then unfortunately those prizes
will be withdrawn.

If the randomly drawn prize is not claimed after 10 days, it will be reallocated. Notice of this will be given on the blog.

PLEASE consider turning off word verification on your
blog. It is very difficult for the DT to comment on as many blogs as we would
like to when word verification slows us down!

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competition MyTimeMedia runs on any of the MyTimeMedia Sites
("Competition"). By participating in each Competition the user as an
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which MyTimeMedia tell you apply to the Competition) and by the
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Competition. No correspondence will be entered into and MyTimeMedia
reserves the right to disqualify any entrant and/or winner in its
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substitute any and all prizes with prizes of comparable value. All
entries must be received by the deadline for that Competition and late
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material by MyTimeMedia will not infringe the rights of any third party;
and

consent to MyTimeMedia passing your name and address to any third party to deliver the prize or prizes to you.

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specifying the Competition. If you are a winner, you may have to
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notification returned as undeliverable as addressed will result in your
disqualification as a winner and an alternative winner will be
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in connection with the acceptance or use of any of the prizes awarded
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transmission or for damage or loss resulting from misdirected or
incomplete entries arising from transmission and/or computer
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Hi Butterflycrafter,The winners project is published in the magazine, over a two page spread with closeup pictures. We need to have the actual project in our studio so our photographer can take all the shots needed, unfortunately emailed jpegs are just not suitable for feature photos in the mag. This applies to all winning projects, no matter what they are. All projects are mailed back to the winner once photography has taken place, along with a complimentary copy of the magazine.

I've just found your blog and I would really love to participate to your challenges. However I'm a bit confused about the "originality" of the work one may post. For example I am currently working on a waterfall slider card. The paper combination, color combination and stamping are all my ideas, however I work based on a template (tutorial) made by somebody else (regarding the scoring, folding, manner of assembling the card). In this case, in your opinion, does my card count as original or not? Thanks in advance for your reply :)

Hi Ana!When we talk about originality, we are talking about the design of a project, not it's construction. So anything that has design features such as a specific colour scheme/embellishment or image placement/actual images used that have been scraplifted/CASED/shared from another persons project do not count as original. For example, there are lots of challenges whereby the idea is to CASE a project, i.e copy the placements and colour schemes of the example given. A great idea for starting the creative juices flowing, but not suitable as an entry in the TIMI challenge. A project construction however, forms the building blocks upon which you add your own designs, so things like waterfall cards, folded books, shadow boxes etc can be all completely original despite having the same starting piint. These are all perfect for the TIMI challenge. Hope that helps a little!

Hello Judy, our blog challenge uses a link up tool that requires the entrant to enter the URL of the entry. It doesn't need to be a blog, as long as your entry is published online somewhere, and you can link up the specific URL (a link that goes directly to the entry, not just a general link) then it will work! We use the word 'blog' simply because 99% of our entries come from blogs. I'm not sure what you mean by address? only the design winner needs an address to actually send in the winning project, we send that out once the winner makes contact with us.Hope that helps!